Fairy bread

A plate of fairy bread at a children's party.

Fairy bread is sliced bread (usually white) spread with margarine or butter, and then sprinkled with Hundreds and Thousands (also known as sprinkles or nonpareils, a product consisting of small balls of coloured sugar intended to decorate cakes).

Fairy Bread is from Australia and is often served at a special occasion

Fairy bread is served at children's parties, almost exclusively in UK, Australia and New Zealand. Slices of the bread are often cut into triangles (or other shapes such as stars and people figures), the crusts removed (though not essential), and then stacked tastefully on the host's paper plate.

It was originally made using finely chopped rose petals for colour and scent instead of the sugary lollies that are used today.

A variation is to spread Nutella on the bread and then add sprinkles.

Sometimes the Fairy Bread will be spread with icing or chocolate for varying occasions.

The origin of the term is not widely known, but it may come from the poem 'Fairy Bread' in Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verse, published in 1885.